Carroll is the sofa.com, Jack Wills or House of Fraser of the football world. The fat lad has wanted to pick up something for free that was previously worth £35m ever since he sold him tbh.
He'll try to build him back into something saleable. That's a certainty.
Personally, wouldn't touch AC with a bargepole but it's a very interesting change of squad dynamic and culture from finesse and integrity through to charva's like AC, Shelvey, Colback etc etc.